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rhashtable: Kill harmless RCU warning in rhashtable_walk_init

The commit c6ff5268293ef98e48a99597e765ffc417e39fa5 ("rhashtable:
Fix walker list corruption") causes a suspicious RCU usage warning
because we no longer hold ht->mutex when we dereference ht->tbl.

However, this is a false positive because we now hold ht->lock
which also guarantees that ht->tbl won't disppear from under us.

This patch kills the warning by using rcu_dereference_protected.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <ying.huang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu 9 lat temu
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1 zmienionych plików z 2 dodań i 1 usunięć
  1. 2 1
      lib/rhashtable.c

+ 2 - 1
lib/rhashtable.c

@@ -519,7 +519,8 @@ int rhashtable_walk_init(struct rhashtable *ht, struct rhashtable_iter *iter)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	spin_lock(&ht->lock);
-	iter->walker->tbl = rht_dereference(ht->tbl, ht);
+	iter->walker->tbl =
+		rcu_dereference_protected(ht->tbl, lockdep_is_held(&ht->lock));
 	list_add(&iter->walker->list, &iter->walker->tbl->walkers);
 	spin_unlock(&ht->lock);